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Shooting Leaves Sense of Shock in Peaceful Pittsburgh Enclave

Squirrel Hill has been haven for professionals, students and Jews; ‘you don’t expect it in your neighborhood’

People in the U.S. and other countries mourned for the 11 victims of a shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. The ambush is thought to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. Photo: AP Images

PITTSBURGH—On Sunday, residents of one of this city’s most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods awoke to a new reality as their normally peaceful streets bore many reminders of the shooting deaths a day earlier of 11 people inside a synagogue.

Bouquets of flowers rested on stone walls of homes near Tree of Life synagogue, where a man with an AR-15 rifle killed worshipers between 54 and 97 years old in the largest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. On Wilkins Avenue, a block away from the Tree of Life, a makeshift...